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Big Day Out 2012 Second Announcement!
Our goal, as always, is to deliver the best experience possible for everyone, including the artists and the BDO team. This year we have made some changes to ensure our BEST always comes before BIG at all costs. STAY INFORMED VIA OUR SOCIALS: facebook.com/bigdayoutofficialpage |
ATTENTION CANBERRA BANDS and DJS! Wanna Play at Mission To Launch
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ATTENTION CANBERRA BANDS AND DJS! Here’s your chance to play at this year’s MISSION TO LAUNCH FESTIVAL – Canberra’s #1 New Year’s Eve party – alongside some of the biggest names in music from Australia and around the world including Sneaky Sound System, The Living End and Ian Carey.
HOW, YOU ASK? Just enter the Mission To Launch band/DJ competition! |
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Dan Sultan to rock the Hi-Fi, Brisbane – Friday 9th December 2011
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Dan Sultan brings the band back to Brisbane by popular demand. The band’s come a long way since their pumping sell-out Brisbane shows way back in May 2010. In that time dynamic front man Dan Sultan went on to win “ARIA Male Artist of the Year” whilst the band’s album Get Out While You Can picked up an ARIA gong for “Best Blues & Roots Album”. Notably Dan Sultan and his musical partner Scott Wilson were nominated for the highly prestigious and coveted APRA Breakthrough Songwriters of the Year 2011. |
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Watch: What They’re Sayin’ | Video
Original song by Australian singer songwriters Brandon & Hicks.
For more information about Brandon & Hicks, contact brandon@lifemusicmedia.com
What They’re Sayin’ by LifeMusicMedia
Floating Me, Over Reactor, Ennis Tola and Anna Salen @ East Brunswick Club, Melbourne – October 28, 2011 | Live Review
by Billy Geary
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It’s fair to say that, in their short life span, five-piece progressive rock act Floating Me have had a considerable amount of success. Sold out national tours and even an ARIA award nomination have seen the group go from strength to strength, eventually finding themselves at a sold out East Brunswick Club on what is the second last date of their national tour. |
Kobra Kai ‘Mind on the Ceiling’ Tour – Nov/Dec 2011
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Since hitting the stage at Parklife 2007 as winners of a triple J unearthed competition, the Kobra Kai have gone on to slots at The Big Day Out, Future Music Festival, Space Ibiza, Stereosonic and Creamfields (2011). Mark Ronson personally ranked them in his top 10 for the 2009 The Lab competition and their list of international supports includes Roni Size & Dynamite MC, Killa Kella, DJ Marky & Stamina, Concord Dawn, High Contrast, Andy C and most recently, Skrillex (last April). |
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THE GETAWAY PLAN ‘The Requiem Tour’ w/ Break Even and Gatherer – Nov/Dec 2011
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In 2009 The Getaway Plan announced an indefinite hiatus and the future of the young band was in doubt. In a whirlwind they had become one of the most talked about upcoming rock bands in the nation but the rapid pace of their success had taken its toll. After going their separate ways for a period to focus on other musical endeavours (The Amity Affliction, Young Heretics, Deez Nuts), in November 2010 Matthew Wright (Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards), Clint Owen Ellis (Guitar), |
Dave Anderson (Bass) and Aaron Barnett (Drums) announced live on Triple J their intention to reform and record a new album.
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Portishead – Glory Box (Video Clip)
Portishead
Bristol, England, UK
Beth Owens – Vocals
Adrian Utley – Guitar, bass, piano
Geoff Barrow – Drums, sampling
The band was formed in 1990 by Geoff Barrow though soon joined by Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley. PORTISHEAD signed to Go! Beat Records and their first album, ‘Dummy’, was released on August 22, 1994. “Numb”,”Glory Box” and “Sour Times” were released as singles and the album went on to win the Mercury Music Prize in 1995.
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‘Harvest’ Music and Arts Festival – November 2011
More great news for discerning music fans!
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The upcoming ‘Harvest’ music and arts festival (taking place in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in November), today unveils new artists joining the already stellar line-up of in Portishead, The National, The Flaming Lips, Bright Eyes, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Holy Fuck, The Family Stone, Mercury Rev, Death In Vegas, The Walkmen, Dappled Cities, PVT, This Town Needs Guns, The Holidays, Phosphorescent, Foxy Shazam, and Kormac’s Big Band.
Playing their first Australian shows in three years are experimental New Yorkers TV ON THE RADIO who meld post-punk, soul and elements of psychedelic free jazz to incredible effect. With their new album, Nine Types of Light, released earlier this year, the band are making headlines and wowing fans all over again. Something they’d be used to following the flurry of acclaim they received when their previous release, 2008’s Dear Science was named album of the year by Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Spin Magazine, MTV, Pitchfork Media’s reader’s poll, and The Village Voice Pazz and Jop critic’s poll! |
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Take Five With… Christian Tryhorn | Transvaal Diamond Syndicate
Its been an amazing year for Transvaal Diamond Syndicate (TDS)… inclusion in Australia’s premier Blues and Roots Festival, Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011, completion of their ‘Sins of the Blessed – East Coast Tour’ – some 35 dates over 2 months which sees the band travel from Cairns all the way down to Sydney, pretty much stopping at every city in between – as well as a number of confirmed festival dates and key support slots.
Life Music Media invites you to take five with… Christian Tryhorn | Transvaal Diamond Syndicate
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Take Five With… Adikkal and LeeHahn | LHA
Interview by Stuart Blythe
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Sydney-based hip hop duo, LHA comprises Australian emcee Adikkal and Korean producer LeeHahn. Captivated by the idea that a song should move you inside and out, LHA make music full of provoking grooves.
LHA will officially launch their debut album, SPLIT DECISION this month and Life Music Media invites you to take five with… Adikkal and LeeHahn. |
Take Five With… Ben Yardley | LAURA
Interview by Stuart Blythe
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As intense as it is delicate, the music of Laura is sure to leave a mark on all who hear it. This is a band not to be missed. Life Music Media invites you to take five with… Ben Yardley of LAURA |
Ball Park Music @ East Brunswick Club, Melbourne | Live Review
Review by Ben Connolly
There’s a buzz in the air tonight – a full house and the Ball Park Music headlining debut album launch tour tends to give out a special vibe. And it’s been a long, well-worn track to get to this point: singles and free downloads leading to early Triple J recognition, signing to a supportive management company and releasing one of them most anticipated EPs of recent memory, seemingly tour after tour as the perpetual bridesmaids before finally knuckling down to carve out the first full-length offering.
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GOOD CHARLOTTE – Brisbane Bound and Set to party!
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With the Good Charlotte boys hitting Brissie with their own original take on the classic Weezer album Blue, The JD Set are pleased to announce that the party plans have just gone into overdrive with news that joining the line up alongside the headliners and Amy Meredith are Melbourne rockers Trial Kennedy and Gold Coast rock quintet Nine Sons Of Dan. |
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Only The Sea Slugs @ Yah Yahs, Fitzroy – October 27, 2011 | Live Review
Review by Ben Connolly
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Rock can be such a bitch of a game. One day you’re the toast of the town, an EP in the shops, a film clip on Rage and some choice words thrown your way from the national youth music broadcaster. Then you decide to cram all your gear into a van and tumble a thousand kilometres south only to be greeted by a mid-week pub, almost empty apart the other bands on the bill and a few uneager passers-by; shitty sound only adds to the drama. And that’s where it all goes pear-shaped for Sydney-siders Only The Sea Slugs with its recent gig at Melbourne’s Yah Yah’s. |
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